A Inter IKEA Group, proprietária da marca IKEA e denunciada por comprar madeira de desmatamentos de florestas raras, vai comprar mais de 20 mil hectares de floresta na Letónia e na Lituânia tanto para aumentar o processamento de madeira nos países bálticos como para reduzir pela metade as emissões de carbono em sua cadeia de valor até 2030.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has put one of the country's largest farmland holders and honorary consul of the Republic of Lithuania, Serhiy Tarasov, on the Wanted list for misappropriation of 12 thousand hectares of state land.
One of Arbonics' clients in Lithuania is INVL Sustainable Timberland and Farmland Fund II which has already planted around 200 hectares of mixed forest and 750,000 trees in total to earn carbon credits.
The fund’s initial offering has raised EUR32.45 million to-date from private investors to back sustainably-managed agricultural land and forests in the Baltic Sea region and Central and Eastern Europe.
Fonterra has increased its investment in Lithuania's biggest dairy producer, AB Rokiskio Suris, to support its New Zealand milk pool and further grow its export markets such as the Middle East.
The European Commission is giving five Eastern European countries two months to bring their agricultural land purchasing rules in line with the European Union standards or it may pursue legal action.
Hong Kong-listed Fosun International, a conglomerate with investments in businesses ranging from holiday resort chain Club Med to upmarket circus show Cirque de Soleil, is to buy 9% of German farm-operator KTG Agrar.
With more savvy investors buying up farmland, land prices have doubled within five years and the result is mega-farms like KTG Agra, which owns 50,000 ha in eastern Germany, Lithuania and Romania.
Some 4,000 hectares of farmland in Lithuania sold to a German institutional investor and leased back for 18 years.
El país báltico se comprometió a liberalizar su mercado de la tierra y a eliminar la prohibición de vender tierras a los extranjeros en un período de transición de 10 años, tras unirse a la Unión Europea en mayo de 2004.
Ce dimanche 29 juin 2014, les Lituaniens se prononcent par référendum sur la vente de terres agricoles aux étrangers.
17 companies owned by NASDAQ traded Invalda LT, holding about 3,000 ha to be transferred to new company INVL Baltic Farmland.
